I think it's funny these days to hear the old sayings be misquoted. Like the meaning is lost, just repeating what they thought was said or remembered wrong. I hear it all the time. The weather lady will use cliches wrong often. My son's friend was over and our supper was ready to eat so I asked him if he'd like to have some. He answered "I'm a pig in sh!+"
. I asked him to go out and wash up before coming in my house
(kidding) I guess he forgot the "happier than a..." part